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Article
Aerosol flow in a tube furnace reactor of gas-phase synthesised silver nanoparticles
In a previous work, gas-phase synthesis of silver nanoparticles through evaporation of silver powder and subsequent particle nucleation by cooling was shown to be a viable method for achieving high purity silv...
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Article
Accelerated atherosclerosis in the transplant recipient: role of hypertension
An accelerated atherosclerosis may occur in the native arteries of a transplant recipient as well as in arteries of transplanted kidneys or hearts. The dominating cause of patient mortality are cardiovascular ...
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Chapter
The living donor program in Scandinavia
One way of alleviating the shortage of grafts in renal transplantation is to use organs from living donors. In Scandinavia, the number of living donors greatly differs between our countries — from 3.4 per mill...
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Treatment of renal calcium stone disease with the synthetic glycosaminoglycan pentosan polysulphate
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are potent inhibitors of calcium oxalate growth and aggregation. The synthetic GAG pentosan polysulphate (PPS) was used in the treatment of patients with renal calcium stone disease. ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Clinical characteristics of renal stone disease in relation to urinary oxalate excretion
The formation of calcium-containing renal stones is regarded as a multifactorial process involving high urinary concentrations of calcium and oxalate in combination with reduced excretion of inhibitory factors...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The importance of residual calculi on recurrence in patients with infection stones
Traditionally the purpose in all kind of renal stone surgery is to achieve complete clearance of the kidney. It is, of course, still an important task to remove the stone fragments, although in newer operative...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Heredity, Serum Phosphate and Urinary Calcium in Calcium Urolithiasis
Familial patterns of renal calcium stone disease have been reported1,2. Familial hypercalciuria has also been described3. The question as to whether or not other risk factors besides urinary calcium are inherited...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Phosphate Treatment of Calcium Urolithiasis
Dietary supplementation with orthophosphate was proposed as an alternative for prophylaxis of renal stone formation many years ago1. The rationale for this proposal is the documented effect of phosphates on reduc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Renal Tubular Function in Patients Following Intestinal By-Pass Operations
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease or jejunoileal by-pass have a high incidence of hyperoxaluria and an increased risk of forming renal calculi. In patients forming idiopathic calcium-containing kidney s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Phosphate Treatment in Calcium Urolithiasis
Phosphate salts have been proposed for prophylactic treatment of renal calcium stone disease for many years.1 Originally, this treatment was based on phosphates effect of reducing the urinary excretion of calcium...
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Article
Ambulatory diagnostic evaluation of 389 recurrent renal stone formers
389 consecutive renal stone formers (275 males, 114 females) were investigated in an out-patient stone clinic. Renal tubular acidosis (RTA) was found in 83 patients (22%). Proximal RTA was twice as common as t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The interaction of urinary inhibitors with crystals
It has been proposed that hyperuricosuria may promote calcium oxalate stone formation. One of the suggested mechanisms is an interference between urate microcrystals and naturally occurring macromolecular inhi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Renal handling of urate in renal stone patients during treatment with thiazides
It is well known that thiazide treatment raises the serum urate levels (1). It has also been reported that the urinary excretion of urate is enhanced during long-term thiazide therapy (2). Such an increase mig...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prophylactic treatment of renal stone disease with magnesium hydroxide during five years
Already in the year 1810 (Brande) was magnesium proposed as prophylactic treatment against renal stone disease. It was later shown that magnesium increased the solubility of calcium oxalate in vitro (Hammarsten, ...
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Chapter
Urinary Citrate Excretion and Acidification Defects in Renal Calcium Stone Formers
A characteristic clinical picture in patients with complete distal (classic) renal tubular acidosis (RTA) includes nephrocal- cinosis or nephrolithiasis1. These patients also have a low urinary citrate which may ...
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Chapter
Long-Term Treatment with Bendroflumethiazide for Prevention of Renal Stones. Clinical Experiences
It has long been recognized that thiazides reduce the urinary calcium output and studies, where larger numbers of patients have been studied1,2 have reported that during long-term follow-up most patients will be ...
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Experiences with Long-Term Use of Sodium Cellulose Phosphate for Prevention of Renal Calcium Stones
A high urinary calcium level is common in renal stone patients1,2. The majority of hypercalciuric patients appear to have a primary intestinal hyperabsorption of calcium3,4. Since the risk of calcium stone-format...
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Chapter
The Clinical Importance of Renal Tubular Acidosis in Recurrent Renal Stone Formers
The incidence of renal tubular dysfunction, especially renal tubular acidosis (RTA) has usually been reported to be low among recurrent renal stone formers1. We have found, when the acidification capacity was rou...
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Urate Metabolism and Urinary Acidification
Hyperuricemia1 as well as hyperuricosuria2, have been claimed to be common features among calcium stone formers. The frequency of hyperuricemia or hyperuricosuria was the same among our stone formers and controls...
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Clinical and Laboratory Findings in Patients with Medullary Sponge Kidney
Structural abnormalities of the urinary tract are usually thought to predispose to renal stone formation. Medullary sponge kidney is probably a congenital abnormality. Because of such structural abnormalities,...
